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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Moshe Ya'alon? An Improvement, or Part of the Problem?

Honestly, I can't figure out how people are supporting Moshe Ya'alon as a replacement for the present defense policy makers.

As I wrote in the simplest language possible here, just because Peretz was caught holding "bag," doesn't mean that he created that awful situation. Olmert's guilty of agreeing, especially requesting, that dangerous "cease-fire agreement," but the people responsible, guilty of our lack of preparedness are those who were running the Defense Establishment these last six years, ever since Barak ordered the soldiers to flee. And foremost among those generals was Moshe Ya'alon.

His recent popularity has me very worried. According to the IMRA poll, which at this moment is not yet on its site:


Do you personally support the entrance of former
COS Bogie Yaalon into Israeli politics?
Support 55.6%

Oppose 24.0%

Don't know 20.4%
Among those who voted Likud, 88.2% support

Of the following who would you like to be defense
minister in the coming years?
Mofaz 17.4%

Peretz 4.5%

Yaalon 28.9%

Barak 10.4%
Others 16.3%

Don't know 22.6%

Am I the only one asking why he was silent during his years as Chief of Staff? From 2002 to 2005, he was the one responsible for everything going on in the army. He is more responsible for the state of the IDF than Amir Peretz and Ehud Olmert. Ya'alon succeeded Shaul Mofaz, who has shown himself to be an extremely ambitious politician, switching parties and policies with ease!

Ya'alon is no innocent, when it comes to the question of who was the was supposed to be making sure that the IDF was ready for war! And as Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2005, he had to have known what Hizbollah was doing in Southern Lebanon. Ya'alon should be investigated, not considered as a savior.

Chodesh Tov and Shabbat Shalom

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

good to hear a sane voice on this subject. this is still another of our problems. Olmert said at one point that the army didn't give him a plan that he didn't agree to, and we could say the same thing about ourselves regarding leaders. we reach into the candy bag, and pull out another of the boys who all went to the same school; some are bad, and some are worse! what we have to do is really change direction, and not pick the "lucky" guy (like Rabin) who was out of town when the whole circus fell apart!

yitz said...

I'm no expert, but Bogie was ONE OF THE FEW of the 'upper echelon' who came out AGAINST the "disengagement", throwing our brethren outa Gush Katif. He paid with his honesty with his job, as Sharon didn't renew his position, & replaced him with Halutz. You don't relate to this at all. This seems to be the reason that he is so popular now, esp. among the right. I really think it the GOV'T, especially the Prime Minister [Netanyahu, Sharon, Olmert] and Defense Minister [Shaul Mofaz, Peretz] who are most guilty for allowing the Hizbullahs to build up for the last SIX years!
I'd appreciate your response to this...

Batya said...

Thanks, Shimonz.
Yitz, Disengagement was announced in 2003; when did Ya'alon come out against? He was still head honcho in 2005.

Remember, I pegged Uzi Landau exactly right. And lots of people were angry with me, until he did what I had predicted.

Batya said...

thanks, Sammy

goyisherebbe said...

I agree. This is the usual damage control by which the powers that be in Israel and their foreign New World Order handlers replace the tarnished politicians in a bait-and-switch move which will lull the public including the settlers' Judenrat (Moetzet Yeshu) into a false sense of security. Sharon was groomed for years to be this kind of Trojan horse. In the case of Boogie Yaalon, he is in the same category as Bibi Netanyahu, who jumped from the sinking ship at the last moment. I also heard that the problem was that Yaalon got into trouble with then-Defense Minister Mofaz for not appointing his nephew to an army command. The fact is that when the Americans start with the carrot and the stick, an Israeli without emuna or basic knowledge will chicken out. The public is not willing to chance even a drop in standard of living for the sake of some settlers. Of course it's not just us, it's the whole country. People also don't realize that the Americans in the State Dept. and intelligence community are the friends of the military-industrial-oil complex and not of Israel and the Jews. That is why the US did little to save the Jews in the Shoah and keeps Jonathan Pollard in prison. End of rant.

Batya said...

Thanks, "goyishr"
I've gotten flack on this one, mostly email, but nobody has really answered my basic questions.
To me anyone who ran the army during those 6 years is involved in the cover-up.
And even his supporters say he's NOT RIGHT WING!

M. Simon said...

The Trophy system worked well.

The trouble is not enough tanks had it.

BTW Israels problem is socialism.

I keep waiting for an Israeliu blog to deal with that issue.

You can see it all over the world. The more socialist the state, the weaker the state.

M. Simon said...

Getting out of Gaza coupled with the battle in Lebanon has hurt the left seriously.

Now maybe it wasn't worth the price, but you can't say nothing good came out of it.

Batya said...

Yes, we do have a major problem.
Ya'alon is suited to the Labor Party, at best. But I'm still terribly suspicious of him.